[2] In the play, the young aristocrat Bill, Lord Towcester, cannot afford to maintain his large country house.
[11] Wodehouse also mentioned in the 1952 letter that it was Bolton who came up with "a very good idea" for explaining Bertie Wooster's absence in the story.
What happened was that when Guy and I were doing the play and had given Lord Rowcester a butler named Ponsonby, I got what I thought was an inspiration and said 'Why not make it Jeeves?'.
At the time of writing the play, Wodehouse doubted whether his pre-war subject matter would still be acceptable to readers, and was experimenting with ways to make his stories more plausible in a post-war setting.
The play and its novelization affirm that even in a post-war setting, Jeeves will ultimately remain with Bertie.
This line may suggest that Wodehouse was considering placing Bertie and Jeeves in a plausible post-war situation in America.
The line about emigrating is not present in the novel, where Jeeves simply says of Bertie's expulsion that "the scandal has affected him deeply.
The cast included Allan Barnes as the Earl of Towcester (Bill), Henry Manning as Jeeves, Brenda Peters as Jill Wyvern, Robert Sewell as Sir Roderick Carmoyle, Annette Kerr as Lady Monica Carmoyle, Lala Lloyd as Mrs Spottsworth, David Raven as Captain Biggar, Oriel Taylor as Ellen, and Denys Graham as Colonel Meredith [sic].
Presented by Peter Hoar and directed by Geoffrey Edwards, the play featured Richard Hart as the Earl of Towcester, John Gill as Jeeves, Judy Tathani as Jill Wyvern, Pauline Murch as Lady Carmoyle, Cavan Malone as Lord Carmoyle, Vanessa Redgrave as Mrs Spottsworth, Gawn Grainger as Captain Biggar, Angela Holder as Helen [sic], and Gordon Thomson as Colonel Blagden.
[23] The cast featured James Cawood as Bill, Richard Pocock as Jeeves, Myfanwy Waring as Jill Wyvern, Judy Buxton as Lady Carmoyle, Derren Nesbitt as Lord Carmoyle, Anita Harris as Mrs Spottsworth, Victor Spinetti as Captain Biggar, Pamela Flanagan as Ellen, and Nicholas Pound as Colonel Blagden.
[25] The play was published in print in script form, subtitled "A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts", by Evans Brothers in 1956.